ELIZABETH — This photo, taken by Edwin Closs between 1914 and 1918, shows members of Upper Montclair’s Troop 13 camping in Elizabeth. The picture is from a collection donated to the New Jersey Scout Museum by Barbara Graydon.

According to the website of the Patriots Path Council of the Boy Scouts of America, camps.ppbsa.org, the Scouts in the photo are participating in “outpost camping.” With outpost camping, Scouts bring all their own supplies and equipment including bedding and tents; they do not stay at a camp with permanent structures such as bunkhouses.

The troop pictured was organized on April 6, 1911, and, as noted by Mark Porter in the April 11, 2011, issue of the Montclair Times, is one of the oldest Boy Scout Troops in the United States.

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